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This past week, the woman ruling the British Empire wasn’t Queen Elizabeth. It was a 47-year-old unemployed spinster named Susan Boyle. A lot of you probably know her story. Susan grew up in a small town in Scotland, a devout Catholic, the youngest of nine children. She had learning difficulties when she was a child,…

“He has been raised.” In those four simple words lie all the glory and mystery and joy of this feast we celebrate. That is Easter. If you want more, all you had to do was look around you as this mass began. In the darkness of this April night, one flame ignited hundreds of others,…

This day, many of us will celebrate one of the most haunting liturgies in the church. I spoke about it in my Good Friday homily from last year: In one sense, of course, we are remembering an event that seems hopeless — the agony and death of Jesus Christ. Today, in this liturgy, we re-read…

I won’t be preaching tonight, but I thought I’d toss up here part of my homily from last year: Do this in remembrance of me. Jesus is saying: This is how I want to be remembered. In the gospel, John doesn’t even mention the meal, or the institution of the Eucharist. But he finds something…
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